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List:       qubes-users
Subject:    [qubes-users] Thinkpwn?
From:       eliwu () tutanota ! com
Date:       2016-08-14 3:57:04
Message-ID: 0997e10d-87de-4261-929e-bc1811a13e4f () googlegroups ! com
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Maybe this is a dumb question, but I can't seem to find any threads here on thinkpwn \
on the qubes group.  Should we be turning off our thinkpwn'd computers off until \
there are bios updates to correct thinkpwn?   Specifically, if we have...
single boot qubes?
dual boot with some other os (windows / osx)?

Lastly, perhaps more importantly, once a computer has been thinkpwn'd, is there any \
way to check?   In other words, is it no longer safe to buy a used computer with \
which to run Qubes off of (in case it has been breached by thinkpwn)?   From my \
understanding, even if you swap out the hard drive and change the os, the malicious \
software survives.  That is huge, no?  

There is a laymen's guide on github.. I am sure that every first-world nation (and at \
the very least the cryptolocker people--they made millions in two months last year) \
have ten to twenty people working on honing out the exploit.  

Toss the old computers, or am I being too paranoid?  

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